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Beijing for Beginners

We lived in China for almost a year before visiting Beijing. This wasn’t a conscious choice, nor an avoidance. More a compounding of circumstances that resulted in multiple visits to Shanghai and regular weekends...

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Do You Know the Way to Taipei?

(OMG, my love for a quirky rhyming title that includes a throwback to Rent, best musical of all time, never ceases to inspire me.) There aren’t many places we can get to quickly from Shenzhen. Turns out, distances...

Things to do in Guangzhou, China: the Yat-Sen Memorial

The Best Things to Do in Guangzhou, China

We’ve been living in China for almost a month, so we figured it was time to see a little more of it. A few weeks back, Julie found out she had to attend a few meetings at her company’s Guangzhou office, so...